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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-02-03

FRANK w. BIRD, former wee president
of the Montana Power Co., was ele-
waited to the. presidency of the COM
pany, succeeding Frank M. Kerr, who
withdrew from the office after so
years of active association with the
dominant Montana utility firm
Announcement of Kerr's change Of
position and Birds promotion was
made at a testimonial dinner given in
Kerr's honor at the New Finlen hotel In
| Butte. All employees of the company
with 25 years or more of service with
/ the firm were guests at the dinner.
Remains on Board
1T is not to be understood that I
am Severing my relations with the
power company" Kerr said in a speech
OF thanks to the veteran employees. II
still remain a director and the board
Of directors has seen fit to appoint me
the honorary president of your COM
pany. 1 will be on hand for such adj
vice and help as I may be able to
give, and I will continue to do my
part to advance the company.
1T follows in natural sequence that
Frank w. Bird, who has been vice
president and my assistant general
manager for eight years, should now
take my office as president and gen.
eral manager. That is accomplished
today His election to this position re-
judgment that he Is the right man. I
but from the unanimous judgment OF /
the directors and those who speak for /
the stockholders of the company
Il am proud and happy that there /
Is at hand to take this position a
man of our own organization whose
ability is outstanding. whose knowledge
comprehensive, and whose capacity as
an executive is proved and well
recognized
"AS your new president I ask for
Frank the full measure of loyalty and
cooperation that you have so gen
erously given me, and with that 1
view the future of this company with
comfort and with confidence.
Il thank you all again, and, Frank,
l hope that when your so years of
service are over, your friends will be
as kindly IN their expressions to you
as they have been to me. That will
De a full reward"
NJ E. Buck Presides
M. E. Buck, general superintendent
If the Montana Power Co, was master
II ceremonies. Frank w. Bird, former
nee president and assistant general
was the chief speaker.
James r. Hohbins, executive wee
PRESIDENT of the Anaconda Copper
W. La4E AlOllLdlld EOWEI 10. 1
)eSJ customer, warmly expressed his I
'egards for the evenings guest of !
honor. HobbinS, a former employe of
he Montana Power Co, is a personal
riend of Kerr. !
G. F. Kelley, president of the Ana :
onda company wired his regrets from !
Jew York Charles Shearer of Los
Angeles, former editor of the Butte !
and personal friend l
Il Kerr for 30 years; Norman B. Hol-
er of Helena. and John r. Yates of
Billings wired their regrets from Los
angeles.
Business Has Grown Steadily :
Kerr became general manager of the
Montana Power Co In 1915. Under i
is management the number of electric
ustomers has risen from $4,000 TO
1000, In addition to which more than !,
l 900 customers are being served with
atural gas, almost 1000 with domestic
1ater and about 800 with steam heat. y
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-02-03
Liquor Monopoly
Nets S4,427, 1878
In Last 3 Years

Montana's net profit from its liquor
monopoly has been 81, 427 ,96779 during
the last three years, Administrator
L. M. A. Wass reported few days ago.
The state liquor board on Jan. had
a cash balance of $16O,088.71 and mer-
chandiSe valued at $685. ,25314
During the three-year period liquor
sales totaled $17,843, 157. 83, with a gross
profit to the state from this source
of $6,124,638.18. Permit sales brought
the state SIPS, IT'S, and discounts earned
totaled $211,811. Other income was
about $4,000
The report said total expenses dur
ing the three-year period were $2,054,-
5000. leaving a nett profit of s4,-
AR, 967.79
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-02-03
Veteran Professor
At State Normal
Dies in NeLU JerSeU

Funeral services we're conducted at
Essex Falls, N. j., recently for Robert
Clark, 10, professor of psychology and
education at the normal college of
Montana State university.
Clark, who died OF pneumonia at
Presbyterian hospital in New York
city, had been on years leave OF al
sence. He had served 33 years on the
Montana schools faculty.
Clark was the son of Mrs. Phoebe
Clark of Essex Falls, who recently cele-
brated her 1O3rd birthday.
Born at Scranton, Pa, Clark at
tended high school at Hartford, Conn,
and was graduated from Amherst col
lege in 1892.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-02-03
LAND BANK GAINS
YEARLY
PRESIDENT E. M. EHRHARDT OF
SPOKANE REPORTS 1889
BUSINESS GROWTH
S1.220,SSS Added to Legal Reserves and
Million Dollars Returned to u. S.
Government by Retirement of Fed
orally Owned Securities.

The federal land bank OF SpO-
kane ended 1889 In the strongest
position in its 23-year history,
President e. M. Ehrhardt told w.
n. Fellows Of Great Falls In q letter
received by Fellows recently. Fell
lows Is secretary Of five
National Farm Loan associations
which are stockholders I'm the band
bank, and which make and service
land bank loans In Cascade, Cho-
team, Lewis and Clark and part of
Teton counties. These associations
have 299 members. In addition,
FeAawwI office services 5Al hand
b@zzk commissioner loans made
tlsT@mga the land bank.
Headlights OF the land banks &C
establishments reported by PreSideni
znrf1ardt were the addition Of 81 ,220,.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-02-03
NEW BOARD CHATRMAN

Alex cunningham OF Helena, vice
president of the Western Life Insur-
ance company was elected chairman
Of the board of directors of the Helena
Minneapolis at recent board meeting
at the Capital city Other members Of
the board are H. D. Myrick of Square
Butte, A. R. McDermott of Billings,
Peter Pauly of Deer Lodge, and R E.
ToWle of Helena.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-02-03
MONTANA MOBILCAS IS
MY GAS FROM NOW ON
Jobbers find Dealers Respomd
TO New Appeal in
Montana Crude Refining

TT DOESN'T take long under the Sign of the Flying Red
Horse for service station dealer convincing proof
Of Mobigas popularity among local
From Mobgas famous for thcSs qualities
which add up % Balanced Performance
The Montana dealer realizes that he enjoys
of public favor when he sells MonanA-rcnsd Mobgaa
For loyal States and take
added pride using Mobigas-the modern gasolne-mads
from Montana Crude in Montana refinery.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-02-03
By WILLIAM A. BURKE

In 1905 the Jewel Tea company,
one Of the first Of the chain or
CARNATIONS, opened a branch office
in Butte Their exploitation policy
of awarding premiums with all
purchases Of teas and cOffees met
with instant success. From a
modest beginning of one delivery
wagon their business increased so
rapidly that within a year they
were using six outfits.
The tea company had their own
ideas Of transportation Instead Of just
ordinary horses, a fine spanking span
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-02-03
FAITH MAY MOVE
MOUNTAINS BUT
KINDNESS FAILED TO BULGE
MULES FROM BUTTES
BUSIEST CORNER

Well Meaning Preachers Interference
With Missouri Skinner, Applying
Pick Handle Where It Did Most
Good, Sends Cleric to Hospital
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-02-03

There are 100000 hogs in the
United States, says agricultural expert.
Yes, but not all of them can drive
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03
Old Betsy May Do
Her Bit i'm Big War

If you have a gum you aren't using,
some Englishman can use it to take
potShotS at German parachuterS in
defense Of his home, says the re-
Gently organized American Commit
tee for the Defense of British Homes.
The committee, headed by G. Suy-
dam Cutting, American sportsman
and explorer, was organized to COL
lect gifts of privately-owned rifles,
revolvers, shotguns and binoculars
for the defense of the homes of the
British civilian population.
Specific materials needed, &C
cording to Cutting, are pistols and
revolvers of all makes and ammu-
milton, rifles of all metric calibreS
from z nm. to 8 mm., and all mill
tary types, 10 and IL gauge shotgunS
but no Damascus barrels, ammuni-
ton No. buck to No. 90 buck, rifled
slugs and pumpkin balls.
Cutting urges that each firearm
be accompanied by $50 to 500
rounds of ammunition, and be sent
to committee headquarters at 10
Warren street, New York city.
Cutting, who heads the commit
tee served In theAEF. in France,
has been on 10 expeditions for the
American Museum of Natural His
tory, and is a trustee of that mus
cum.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03

Some wives have to get wrinkled
faces and knotty hands before hus-
bands begin to appreciate them.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03
Invention of Gunpowder
Still Remains a Mystery

There is large place reserved
in world history for the man who
invented gunpowder-but no histori-
an can be certain of this inventors
identity.
Perhaps no chemical invention or
discovery has affected the course
of history to a greater degree than
has gunpowder. DR.. Ralph E. Oes-
per, associate professor of analyti-
cal chemistry at the University of
Cincinnati, has been making study
Of its origin.
DR.. Oesper said that Berthold
Schwarz, a German monk, and
Friar Roger Bacon have been asso-
ciated with the invention, although
the Bacon claim has been upheld
solely in England.
His studies have led DR.. Oesper
to the conclusion that Schwartz
he really existed at all-invented
firearms about 1850 at Freiburg,
Germany.
mo contemporary documents or
accounts dealing with Schwarz are
known and those who contend that
he never existed may be correct,
but at least tradition, which usually
has an historical basis, justified the
monument to his memory in Frei-
burg" DR.. Oesper explains.
The earliest version, taken from
Freiburg manuscript of 1882, has
Schwarz seeking a tincture for gild-
ing metals, mixing saltpeter, sui
phur, lead, and oil in a tight copper
pot, and prompted by the resultant
explosion to experiment further.
why are there no contemporary
records?" DR.. Oesper asked. IF
Berthold Schwarz is a purely leg
endary inventor, the answer is OBJ
vious. However, history may have
taken no interest in his doings be-
cause guns were said to be execra-
BILE inventions and their employment
was decried as destructive to manly
valor and unworthy of an honora-
BILE warrior.
'Schwarz was reputed to have
compounded powder with Satan's
blessing, and the clergy preached
that as a co-worker of the evil one,
he was a renegade to his profession
and his name should be forgotten
There was no reference to the Chi
nese claim to the invention of gun
powder in DR.. Oesper's report.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03
Buddies Enjoy Trip
to Reunion of A.E.F.

LOCUST GROVE-Mr. and Mrs.
M. Simmelink accompanied the
Loren Lapes of ProSSer on trip to
Standpoint, Idaho over the weekend,
where they attended the reunion of
the 146th AEF. This reunion is held
in September every year and much
enjoyment is evidenced when these
old comrades meet each other again.
Next years reunion will be in Walla
WalIa.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. <. Stafford and
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Edwards left
Sunday for a two weeks visit to
California and the fair.
The Locust Grove Home Circle
will meet Tuesday, October Is at the
home of Mrs. M. v. Heberlein with
an afternoon meeting starting at
200 o'clock. Plans for Achieve
ment Day will be made.
Pat Owens returned last week
from a trip to Rochester, where he
entered the clinic for observation
and treatment. He is much improv-
ed after minor operation.
Locust Grove Grange will meet on
Saturday at the hall at o'clock.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03
Many Local Visitors
Attend Yakima Fair

WESTERN HORSE HEAVEN
MIR. and Mrs. Guy Travis, Geneva
and Naomi Travis, Vernon Borden
and Phyllis Speck attended the
fair at Yakima Saturday afternoon
and evening. They also visited at
the Charles Tyacke home, where
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Tyacke and
daughter, Virgil Tyacke and Ber-
nard Gable are staying at present.
Other visitors at the Yakima
Fair Saturday were Mr.. and Mrs.
w. G. Travis and Mr.. and Mrs. John
Tomaske and children.
Barney Schmidt and son., Billy,
went to Zillah Friday afternoon and
spent the night with relatives. Sat-
Irday they were guests of relatives
in Yakima and visited the fair.
Shirley Reuter- of Prosser spent
the weekend at the James Belan
home. Alice Girt spent the week.
end at her home, her first visit
home since school began.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03
Mrs. McBee Entertains
Seattle Relatives

WESTERN HORSE HEAVEN
Mrs. E. H. McBee has been enter
tanning as houseguests for several
days, her sister, Maude and also her
daughter, Anne of Seattle. Thurs
day Mr. and Mrs. Maurice McBee
and children, Mrs. McBee and her
guests attended the fair at Yakima.
Dorabelle, Louise and Merle May
Morgan were visitors Friday even
ing at the Hugh Bell and Guy Travis
homes
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Anderson
and Floyd Smith spent Saturday
and Sunday with relatives in Yaki-
ma and visited the fair. Mr. and
Mrs. Chester Anderson and daugh-
ter, took saddle horse up for entry
at the fair by truck
James Belan left Sunday for CAL
ifornia, where he will go on anoth-
er fishing expedition.
Richard McBee was absent from
school Thursday and Friday.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03

hour the remaining goods was au-
ctioned by WILDER Ash of Finley. In
connection with the country store
a cooked food and rummage sale
was featured.
The proceeds which amounted to
one hundred and thirty-five dol
lars will be used to repair and paint
the community church,
An old fashioned fried chicken
dinner was served country style to
about hundred and fifty guests.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. v. I. Tuck
er Of Amboy, a girl, Anita Jean,
on September Is.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Henry of Seaside, girl, on Septem-
Der 8.
The Tucker family and Henry
families were former residents here.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03
Child Food Training

The most important factor In as
surfing good nutrition for children is
the knowledge Of how to select the
proper kinds of food and how to en-
couarge good food habits. Children
begin to form food habits soon after
they are born. Parents can see to
it that these early food habits are
good ones that will stand by the
children for the rest Of their lives.
Good appetite is big help in form
ing good food habits. Children who
have enough sleep and who do not
60 to meals overtired, who play &C.
INDEPENDENTLY in the open air
and who have good meals at regular
hours under pleasant conditions are
likely to have good appetites. Eat
ing between meals can become a
bad habit that spells the appetite for
regular meals.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03

Sam McCrosky Of Colfax, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. L. Cochran and Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanley Cochran and family
Of Finley, and Mrs. Minnie Ashby.
Reverend and Mrs. Will Daniels
Of Richland spent Friday at the
j. E. Cochran home and attended
theHarVeSt Festival in the evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chuck Neal, laugh
ter Carol, and Bobbie Hughes visit
ed Sunday at the Joy Ely nome in
Walla Walla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hampton and
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03

fifth place. The two young ladies
will compete in the meat identifi-
cation contest at the Pacific Inter-
national at Portland.
Walter Edwards and Mrs. M.
Simmelink took the exhibits of the
Locust Grove Sagebrush Six All
club to the State All Fair at Yaki-
ma Tuesday. The clubs exhibits
won five blue, five red and two white
ribbons as prizes.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Edwards and
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Smith attended
the annual Rebekah and Odd Fellow
dinner at the hall Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Henson and
Mrs. j. w. Root were Yakima fair
visitors Saturday.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03
Harvest Festival to
Benefit Local Church

HOVER-The Hover Ladies' Aid
wish to thank all those who took
part and helped out so generously
in the Harvest Festival given at the
River View high school the evening
of Friday, September 9th.
The main feature of the evening
was a country store, which was
made up of donations from the
Kennewick and PaSco merchants
and our community. After the
store had been in progress for an
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03
Girl Likes Machine ShOp

Celia Varady, II, of Cleveland,
Ohio, takes greasy hands and
broken fingernails with a grin-for
she Is enrolled in the machine shop
class in her high school. "It's a lot
of fun, just being down here and see
ing what goes on" she said, turn
ing down a casting on large metal
lathe. II like running lathe, but
filing is not so wonderful-not that
I don't like that too, but / don't
have the strength for it." Celia said
she likes to get her hands dirty.
"And I certainly do down here" she
said. -"I break so many nails now
that I have given up using nail pol
ish." f. :.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03
Ruth Simmelink Wins
LIST i'm Meat Contest

LOCUST GROVE NEWS Ruth
Simmelink and Irma Pratt, MEM
bers of the Locust Grove Sagebrush
Six Handy Homecraft All Club
competed in the meat Identification
contest and presented a demonstra-
ton at the Al fair at Yakima on
Saturday. Ruth won first honors in
meat Identification and Irma won
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03

son, Bobbio, We're dinner
Sunday at the C. ]. D Dan guests On
ca Mr.. and Mrs; Sam Mccroa sons
Go! Il were Weekend gTs s,S o.
81, j.. E; Cochran home. Mrs rsS ,, a De
key is a SISTER Of MI, C csS: Mccru.
Iris, Walter ana Gora".t
visited Mr.. and Mrs 0t 1 Hughe
M, Mr.. a. and Mrs. Joe Ely hs SSuT q
their infant laughter, Bst se Named
Miss Loretta Mills w ss'.y Irene.
Walla visitor SUNDAY ""S q Wall
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03

The S. S. America, recently
launched, is the largest steamship
ever built in America. It will make
its maiden cruise August 10 to the
West Indies. The new luxury liner
weighs 26,454 tons.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03
]. E.. Cochran Observes
Eighty-Third Birthday

HOVER-Mrs. j. E. Cochran en-
tertained Sunday at dinner honor
ing her husbands eighty-third
birthday. Guests were MIR. and Mrs.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03

To enable needy All club men,
bers to get started in their live stock
projects the Farm Security Admin
istration has begun to lend the
young people small sums of money
up to SIS. This will permit them to
buy a calf, pig or chickens or 9TH
er livestock necessary for fulfilling
a club project. These young borrow
ers are members of families already
being helped by the F. S. A.
Glacier County chief., 1940-03-22

Bowers was widely known ditty of
the early day cattle country.
Don't get the idea, however, that
cowboys are not fond OF music. The
heavy. deadly sentiment of the Diving
Cowboy brings grin to their Inns.
But Home on the Range" modern
song written by finished song writer,
set to tuneful, appealing music, sung
in the ringing tenor voice of Alex
ander Campbell at the annual re-
unions, has brought them all to their
feet to join in the chorus and a thun-
der Of applause at the finish.
Other old-time cowmen with whom
I have checked regarding the ability
OF old-time cowboys or rather their
lack of ability to sing old-time cow
boy songs in anything else but little
pieces interspersed with hummings and
ia de da's," are Ray Klaue, Great
Falls postoffice official. born and
raised on a Meagher county cattle
ranch and secretary of the Montana
Cowboys association; Ben jefferson,
brand inspector, former manager Of
one of the J. B. Long Cattle Co.
ranches and treasurer of the cowboys
association, and Bill Shea, president
Of the association.
They all agree that they never yet
have known a cowboy who could sing
a whole song or follow a tune all the
way through.
Glacier County chief., 1940-03-22
BY PETE SNELSON

Differing from the cowboys pic
tured in the movies of today, the
Old-time cOwhand Of so and 60
years ago, couldn't sing. Few of
them could even carry a tune and
seldom was one encountered whose
musical aspirations carried him
farther than an effort to MARBLE
the chorus of a song he may have
heard in some honky-tOnk during
his last trip to town. And 1t was
In such places for the most part
that the old time cowboys heard
the Old-time cowboy songs, and not
In COW camp or on the roundup.
True, the human voice raised in song
was supposed to have soothing eff
feet upon herd bedded down for the
night, and the nightherders were often
wont to raise their voices in alleged
song in keeping with that belief, but
the song was more often one they had
become familiar with during their boy
hood, frequently one from the old fam
lily hymn book, than the doleful chants
of the old-time cowboy" song.
I came to this conclusion after a
residence of more than 40 years in re-
gionS populated by stockmen during
which time I have never heard any
cowboy sing more than a fragment of
a song and those usually at times when
he thought he was isolated and alone
who knew the songs to the bitter end,
never the cowboy But the girls and
professors" in the western music halls
knew the songs and sang them for
the entertainment of the cowmen who
visited their places.
The correctness of my conclusion has
been borne out to my own satisfaction
by attendance at the annual reunions
OF the Montana Cowboys association
held in Great Falls during the past
three years at which have been present
from 300 at the first one, to 45O at
the second and nearly 600 at that of
1910, of old-time brand owners, vet
eran cowboys and sons of both still
engaged in the stock business. During
the three reunions no old-time cowboy
has been heard even attempting to
raise his voice in song. not even in
the dipping vat" where old friends
gather to renew friendships of so years
or more and to recall the range days
and to tell stories of bad horses.
"leader" and outlaw steers and of
Jobs" put up on this or that fellow
and jokes played on others. But never
a song. Not even Hail, Hail, The
Gangs All Here"
AS a further check upon my own
observations did some of what might
be called research" work in the mat