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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-12-30
NOTICE or ANIMAL MEETING
OF STOCK DERg

The annual meetlng OF the stockholders
Of Petroleum Acreage. Inc a Montana
corporation. Of Great Falls. Montana,
VIII be held on Tuesday. January 16
1910. Mt 200 o'clock T. NJ. al the office
n said company. Room 6is First Nation
al Rank Building. in the CITY Of Great
Falls. Cascade county. Montana. for the
purpose Of electing a BOARD Of Directors
for the ensuing year and transacting any
and all other business that may be law
fully considered at said meeting
Dated this 30th day OF December A. D.,
1899.
o. l. nESCHON. Secretary.
Date OF first publication December ~.
1879. ~
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-12-30
TGOLE COUNTY
1ooIe County Abstract CompAny
SHELBY. MONTANA


ASSIGNMENT or ROYALTY
Helen NJ Campbell 70 Walton ~
ArnOt. - Of III on SW3NW3 "a, sk3
NEf 1888 West
Northern Ranch Co. 10 John ] Buckley
X Frank T. Buckley, See on WlsEi o
.T-3 West.
ASSIGNMENT Of OIL AND GAS
PERMIT
Gordon Campbell Kelvin Syn. TO Monroe
l.. Bickari. Sws %. WAWl b, NEl, Wa
NW4 2l-.A-3 West.
RE-AssIGNMENT or OIL AND
GAS LEASE
First State Bank, 10 HusO Brothers t99s
on N3NE1 1881 West: 500 on W3NW3
1881 West: sa1Cs on STA i4-5-3W.
RELEASE OF ASSIGNMENT
james shelton 20 Henry /. Homer
SEiSEi 3 SW3SWa g. NE4SWl 1914
3 West: SElNE4 ElNW3. IS NWiNE3
10. SW4SE4 1859 West.
AGREEMENT
II. l. Homer to James Shelton, W1SW4
NEiSWt TO- Lots 4 SlSE3 g. Lot Z.
SE3SWf $3.50 West: SiNEl EANW3
NElSWi SiSEi ~ NaNE3 NE3NWi.
10. NW1NEl. - SE3SWl SW3SEi -
,s5-3 West
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-12-30
GLACIER COUNTY
DEED on ROYALTY
ny Glacier Counfy Abstrart Co.
CUT ANK, MONTANA

DEED OF ROYALTY
john W Schmidt ct TX 10 l.. J. Ollig
& Hazel 0lig as Joint tenants 2Aet
ElNWl SlNEl See 1886. 2lG SEA
Sec 13-34-G
EXTENSION AGREEMENT
William OIsrien ct TX II al to First
National Rank OF Great Falls. extends
Mortgage Fk Z Of MORTGAGES. page 279
covering SWi. SWtNWl W3SEi Sec
n. SEiSE3 Sec. 13-34-5 TO Nov. /. 1871
royalty assignments 10 1st National Bank
Of Great Falls 10 hc made second party
until Indebtedness Is paid &15l0T6
ASSIGNMENT or ROYALTY
Albert T. Johnson ct ux to g. X.
Bilstad. ~ SlNwl SWl Sec. 4, NANw4
Sac n-.ai-5
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-12-30
ILLINOIS OIL
CONTROL TIED In
WITH PENSIONS

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.-Governor
Horner hopes that the spe
ciaI session Of the Illinois Legisla-
ture, converting early in January,
can be limited to consideration of
two subjects-first. increasing the
old age pension from $50 to $40
per month and second. oil regulation
in the state.
Referring to oil legislation the
Governor said he had had a bill
drafted and that it is now In good
shape to submit to the legislature.
The bill, it is understood, carries
provisions for regulation OF oil pro-
duction as we'll as a severance tax
on crude. the amount of which was
not named
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-12-30
DEvoNIAN IN LrAiELIGHT

"Devonian" over the past 2
weeks has become the most used
sometimes misused-word in the
vocabulary OF the Illinois operators.
says the Tulsa Oil & Gas Journal.
The discovery well OF that pay in
the Salem field doubled its produc-
tion after acidization.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-12-30
MACPHERSON RETURNS

BASIN-Frank MACPHERSON, gen.
eral superintendent of the Basin
Montana Tunnel Co.. has returned
from o three months trip to Nome,
Alaska, on company business. He
has also been in New York.
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GAIL FOR BIDS ON STATE OIL AND
Gas LEASE. January 10. 1870

Notice Is hereby given that the State
Board OF Land Commissioners OF the
State 81 Montana win receive bids az
npen competitive bidding nj the State
Land office IN the State Capitol az 2:O0
r NJ. Wednesday. January 10. 1910. for
oil and gas lease on the following
described land.
Suidi-
Tract vision Sec Twp Rye. Acres
i WASN'T = BIN 2w)
W8NWI - I'm owl
This Board reserves the right to reject
any and all bids
For further information amply to:
NANTTA H. SHERLOCK
Secretary. State Board Of
Land Comm issiOners, Helena.
Montana.
Date OF first publication. December
%. 1882 Ak
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CRUDE TAX FOR ILLINOIS AGED

CHICAGO 49, Illinois Governor
Homer has announced that his pro-
posed oil tax bill will call for a
severance tax on crude oil produc-
tion to provide for old age assist
ance. A special session OF the leg
islature may be delayed until after
Jan. the Governor said.
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JACK AGES TAKEs vAcATIoN

After having drilled in one of
the largest wells of the year in
Kelvin field, as contractor for DR..
B. A. S. Aronow, Jack Agen of
Kelvin, chose to take vacation
and rest in the sunshine of Cali
fOrnia, leaving on Wednesday with
his family for Los Angeles.
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FOUR WELLS

CONTINUED from PLRe Onel
from 1872 to 1876, the main pay.
Oil rose 600 feet in the pipe. Hole
was completed 10 feet in the Ellis
sha1e at 27S6.
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Maps. pIats. leases, contracts copied
by photo offset or ph0toatat Write Us
yonr problem. The Mailing shop. Great
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NOTICE 10 CREDTTORs

Estate ~ EARL RATRIE, sometimes
known as EARLE RATRIE. Deceased.
NOTICE ~ HEREBY GIVEN by the
undersigned Administrator Of the Estate
Of Earl Ratrle. sometimes known as
u and all persons having claims against
the said Deceased to exhibit them with
the necessary vouchers within months
after the first publication Of this notice
TO the said Administrator at the office.
OF GraybiIl & Graybill 81 Ford Build
ing, Great Falls Montana the same being.
the place for the transaction OF the
business Of said estate In the County
Of Cascade.
Dated December g. 1890
f. J. LIPTAK.
Administrator Of the Estate
OF Earl Ratrie, sometimes
known ms Earle Ratrie,
ihpceased
Date OF first publication December D.
1929 Al
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
LET'S CARRY CHRISTMAS
THROUGH THE YEAR

This weary old world would be lot
better place to live in if each of US, every
day in the year, smiled as we smile at
Christmas time, offered ourselves as un-
selfishly as we do at Christmas, strove
as we do strive at Christmas to make
Others happy.
And, after all, why not?
Christmas teaches lesson that is not
hard TO read.
Why are you happy during the Christ
mas season? Isn't it because you are
giving to others, instead Of forever try
ing to get from others? Isn't it because
you want to make others happy, and IN
doing so find your own happiness? Isn't
it because you smile as you walk down
the street, laugh with your family when
you go home, pass up gloom in favor of
good cheer?
Certainly, you say. That's because it's
Christmas.
But wouldn't it be the same most OF
the year, if we acted the same way most
of the year?
The happiest lives are those which are
spent in bringing gifts to Others, whether
they are gifts of tangible value or gifts
of happiness through little acts and kind
ly words The people who live that sort
of life keep Christmas alive all year.
Each of us can do the same thing, If
only we will.
Christmas is not a season, it is state
of mind 1t is happiness, born OF happl-
ness given to others.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
AMERICAS CHRISTMAS
MESSAGE TO THE WORLD

From every American home when
Christmas Day dawns there should go
forth a message to the rest of the world
"a message in words that have lived and
resounded through the ages:
Peace on Earth; Good viii Toward
man."
In every American home on the dawn
of this Christmas there should be a pray
er, spoken or unspoken, that peace shall
prevail in this land and that the way to
peace shall be shown those of other
lands.
In half the world the blessed message
of this greatest of all holidays has been
buried under an avalanche Of horror and
hatred. Half the homes in that half of
the world have been blasted and darken-
ed by the terror Of war To them, in
their extremity, comes the need for real
ization that regardless of darkness which
blights their lives today, the entire worlds
greatest hope still lies in that simple, i'm
mortal phrase:
Peace on Earth
1t is no trite phrase, that; no cliche
that time can dull or the years rob of
its meaning. Wars may wreak their
havoc, hatred may rend nations and ag-
gregation trample freedom for the time
being, but when the horror of war has
rolled by and the buildings of renewed
civilization been erected on the ruins OF
old battlefields, the heart of mankind
will be found still harbOring the teach
ing of the Master.
America stands today as the worlds
greatest example of peace and freedom.
So it stands, also, as the greatest expo
nent of the doctrine of peace and good
will, the belief that friendship can settle
differences that war only aggravates.
Thus it is that the people Of America,
happy in their protected homes, are
selected this year from among all the
peoples of the globe to carry on by pre-
cept and example the greatest teaching
of tn greatest Teacher.
This Christmas, and forever let us
as free people live by that teaching, as
suring peace where we can make peace
by practicing good will toward all men.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Famous Sayings

WASHINGTON.-The inner ad-
ministration fight over cutting down
on spending next year is no.
where raging more sharply than in
connection with the antitrust cam
paign of the Department of Justice.
Assistant Attorney General Thur
man Arnold believes his program
is just getting under way, and that
it offers the government the best
single means at its disposal for
keeping living costs down and pro-
noting industrial revival.
He wants to see the antitrust
divisions appropriation for next
year raised from its present level
of 81 100000 to about 100000.
The budget bureau, meanwhile,
is insisting on cut instead OF an
increase. Right now the fate OF
the whole antitrust campaign is
hanging in the balance.
Arnold has bluntly told the al
ministration that if his division
cannot expand its work during the
coming year it might jhst as well
shut up shop entirely.
Most publicized job the antitrust
division is doing now is its IN
vestigation of the building industry.
This is behind schedule. 1t has
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

barely begun to operate on ltS ma
ton wide suits, has not yet toucheu
the network of restrictive city Or
dinances which it considers a big
factor in freezing building costs'
and has not been able to go into the
question of patent rights.
The building investigation is only
one of several fronts on which the
division is now active. Arnold con-
templates a much broader program
aimed at reducing prices and pro-
noting free trade all along the line.
He wants to attack interstate
trade barriers. He wants to inveSti-
gate the milk supply problem.
He believes lower prices to the
consumer could be had all across
the purchasing field-in agricul-
tural products. in tobacco, in re-
failing generally-if tactics applied
in the building investigation could
be extended to all major distribu-
ton fields.
To carry out such program re-
quireS a larger staff than IS now
available, ana this means more
money is needed. All in all, Ar
mold wants around $50 men to do
the job.
About one-third of these would
be used to form a permanent on
the-spot organization, posted roughly
one man to each state. Each mems
function would be to keep in touch
with trade and industry
He would maintain contacts with
and receive complaints from con-
sumer organizations, trade aSso-
Citations, labor unions, retail groups
and the like.
The representative could thus spot
any monopolistic or pricefreezing
trend as it developed and before it
Solidified.
The rest of the men would con-
stitute a fluid field force which
could be sent to this or that To-
cality as need for full-dreSS inveS-
legations arose.
Whether Mr.. Arnold will attain
this dream at the coming session
of Congress is an open question.
Right now his big difficulty is the
budget balancing drive being prac-
ticed ruthleSSly at the White House.
When Congress conVeneS, another
hurdle will be the opposition of
the American Federation of Labor,
which is bitterly opposed to con-
tinuance of the building investi-
CATION.
If the building drive has aroused
AFL officials, it has received con-
siderable support from labors rank
and file, according to Arnold. Just
incidentally, the complaints on
which grand jury action against
various building trades union leaders
has been based have come, SO far,
from members of AFL unions-and
not, as might have been expected,
from CIO people
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Ten Thousand Years from Now He
viii Make Glad Childhood S Heart

world if there were no Santa
Claus! 1t would be as dreary as
if there were no Virginia. There
would be no childish faith then, no
poetry, no romance to make toler
able this existence. We should have
no enjoyment, except in sense ana
sight. The eternal light with which
childhood fills the world would be
eXtinguiShed.
Not believe in Santa ClauSi You
might as we'll not believe in fairies!
You might get your papa to hire
men TO watch in all the chimneyS
on Christmas Eve to catch Santa
Claus, but even if they did not
see Santa Claus coming down, what
would that prove? Nobody sees
Santa Claus, but that is no sign
that there is no Santa ClauS-the
most real things in the world are
those neither children nor men
can see.
Did you ever see fairies dancing
on the lawn? OF course not, but
that's no proof they are not there
nobody can conceive or imagine
all the wonders that are unseen and
unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the babys rattle
and see what makes the noise in
side, but there is a veil covering
the unseen world which not the
strongest men, or even the united
strength of all the strongest mer
that ever lived. could tear apart
Only faith fancy, poetry, love, ro-
nance, can push aside the curtain
and view and picture the superna
beauty and glory beyond.
rs it all real?-ah. Virginia, il
all this world there is nothing elst
real and abiding.
mo Santa Claus? Thank God!--
he lives, and he lives forever
thousand years from now, Virginia
nay, ten thousand years from now
he will continue to make glad tht
heart of childhood"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Editorials and Comment
SUNDAY, DECEMBER "a, 1899
RUSSIA AND ROBERT,
A COMPARISON
lChrlStian Science MOnitor)

NNIi cSISllNG AhplllNoIJ
Russia was a member of the League
of Nations, Robert Sullivan, jr., is a
member of the Boy Scouts
When the Third Reich's diplomats re-
turned from Moscow after signing the
non-aggressiOn pact, Soviet leaders found
that Germany-probably inadvertently
had dropped figurative wallet contain
ing tempting diplomatic opportunities
in the Baltic states practically at Russia'S
feet. As Robert went about his own busi-
hess he found that someone had dropped
a real bundle of savings and loans certi-
ficates valued at $4,000.
The Soviet oligarchy picked up the
wallet but instead of returning it to the
losers, the SovetS took it to Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania and lastly to Finland
to collect such rewards as might be
eXtorted from these small neighborS.
But Robert took the bundle he found
TO the savings-and-loan office where a
reward was freely offered to him.
Russia'S rulers knew that what they
We're doing was against league rules.
Robert knew that if he took the reward
offered him it would be against Scout
rules
Now comes the first difference between
Russia and Robert 1t is that Russia tried
to take what opportunity offered, but
Robert refused
Another difference is that Russia has
just been expelled from the league while
Robert has brought new credit to the or
ganization of which he is a member
Still another difference is that Russia
has forfeited the respect of most of the
civilized world but Robert has gained
the respect Of thousands of us who now
read of the fixedness of his moral pur-
pose. and are re-inspired by his taking
that road which We all must take indi-
vidually before we can take it collectively,
and which leads to the kind of world we
want.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
SPEECH REFORM
(Riverside Press

Records kept since 1881 by the speech
clinic at City college, New York, show
that high school graduates today have
more and worse speech faults than their
predecessors They speak too hurriedly
with careless articulation and improper
use of the tongue. Other faults are fire.
quent substitution of ID for 9TH" dis
tortion of "s', nasality and hoarseness.
The clinic director recommends courses
in speech in all secondary schools. "Train-
ing in ordinary, distinct conversation"
he says, should be one of the funda-
mentals in students education"
There will be many who agree with
him, though not all will want another
course added to an already crowded
school day. We would suggest, instead,
that correct speech be required in all the
regular classes. We believe that many
faults could b corrected if the teachers
of mathematics and history and science
and art and reading and composition
merely insisted that recitations be we'll
spoken. Students with serious faults
would be given special attention in speech
classes.
Poor speech is not confined to any
community, the whole country has grown
careless in this respect, perhaps from
over-indulgence in comics and slang.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24

bi5 s dlIS ana dfmOr plate Tor battle
ships. Perfectly splendid idea. The
country was at fever pitch. Charlie
Chaplin, the comedian, alone had
sold over a million dollars worth
of Liberty Bonds to raise money for
the building of these guns and bat
wanted to see how the big steel
factories worked,
Vernon Howe Bailey preSenet
the idea to 'Harper's Magazine"
Good idea. Just what we want
Go at once" they said.
Armed with government creden-
tials an Identification, Bailey hop
ped a train to see Eugene G.. Grace,
president of the steel company
Guards were stationed around the
mammoth plant; a thousand eyes
were watching for spies.
Came the moment when he was
to see the steel king. He set his
portfolio of drawings down, faced
one of the most powerful men in
the United States, and explained
what he wanted.
III oOl y, bldC Sdlu, DuU L
can't let you. No artist has ever
made sketches in the Bethlehem
Steel plant, and no artist ever will.
Especially now when we're on Sc
cret work. Last week French
Mission was here and wanted to
see our plant. We turned them
away"
Bailey was stunned. He tried to
persuade the steel man. But Grace
shook his head. This went on for
ten minutes meeting only NO, No,
No"
Bailey, appreciating that the
Bethlehem Steel Company plant was
a rich mine of picture subjects
thought fast and advanced every
argument he could summon. Fin
ally, he hit on a brilliant idea
Mr.. Grace" he said, don't yor
think that the people who have
poured out their money SO literally
for these battleshipS should be al
lowed to see how it is being spent?
Don't you think that this is a
chance TO do something directly
for the people?" Mr.. Grace looked
at Vernon Bailey with interest.
AS he thought it over. he felt
that there was something due the
people Of America. Plainly he was
impressed. Mr. Bailey pressed his
point and Mr.. Grace grew more
thoughtful. Finally, he said, "You
are right. I hadn't thought of il
from that angle. You can begin
your sketches tomorrow morning
Bailey made the sketches ano
they were published. They proveo
to be good and of SO much con-
sequence that they are now in the
Smithsonian Institute in Washing
ton d. G.
Mr.. Bailey had hit on an appea'
that had struck home; one thai
won Mr. Gract over when all other
arguments had failed. Basic appeal
If you can find the basic appea
dominant in every man, you car
at least persuade him to see your
point of view. Many an appeal is
thrown overheard because the point
of view remains obscure.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
TodaY'S HOrOScOpe

A most happy, fortunate year will
be enjoyed by today's birthday
children. They may be enriched by
inheritance They should, however,
be on their guard against some de
ception. The child born on this
date will possess a fertile imagina-
ton and a keen. penetrating intel
lect. If born in the morning such a
one may have a pesSimistic out
look, the evening being the most
propitious time of birth.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
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Dale
CARNEGIE

| have been given good eX-
ample of handling people by Yer
non Howe Bailey, well-knoWn ar
tist. whose work you've seen in ma
eazineS and newspapers for years,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24

and who got out
that interesting
book of drawings
City"
In 1917, when
we got into the
World War. Mr..
Bailey had a big
i d t. a. Go into
the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation.
in Bethlehem Pa.
and make sketches
of the forging of
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Hints on Etiquette

1t is not good taste for a hostess
to invite a man to be a dinner
guest in her home without his wife,
unless she is i'll or out of town,
nor to invite a wife without her
husband unless the same cicum-
stances prevail