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• Pilfer\ BIG SANDY COMMUNITY FAIR, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26TH The Bear Paw Mountaineer VOLUME 11. FEDERAL PROBE ON OASAINE. Helena, Aug. 10—The Feder- al probe of gasoline prices in Montana was opened here Wed- nesday with the charges of the • state public service commission at Big Sandy, Carter and High - that consumers of lquid fuel 'n wood. A real harvest festival the state virtually are treated' will be held in those commit: - as the victims of a system of ties. Committees on exhibits, business piracy. decorations, amusement and in the data collected by the events for the big day. The accusation was embodied l publicity are b is y planuing commission and was laid before Competant judges will lw federal representatives who ar- available for both the agricul- —OFFICIAL PAPER OF BIG SANDY— BIG SANDY, MONTANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1921 rived here to conduct the probe granted -the state by the Feder- al Trade commission. Statistics set forth that the price of crude oil in Montana dropped from more than a barrel to $1, but that there was no corresponding 1 -Auction in the price oi l :gasoline. It is chat ged that gasoline from the Wyoming refineries, where Montana's supply conies from, is sold in competitive fields at a price far under the rate in this state. COUNTY AGENT NOTES, COMMUNITY FAIRS. Committees are exatending themselves in making arrange• ments for the community fairs tut - al and home economic de- partments. These one day fairs should prove a big factor in each COM' inanity as it %ill afford eluca- tion and recreation for every- body. Appropriate blue and red ribbons will be awarded all first and second prizas. mdtASSIIOPPEIRS Bafore you seed that winter wheat it might be well to make a few observations in regard to the prevalence of grasshoppers Since publication was made in that area. It is a well of the state's request for a fed- known fact that the hoppers if eral probe, gasoline prices have taken a pronounced drop here, it was said at the office of the public service commission. Quo- tations obtained from various Montana cities then ranged frcm 30 to 33 cents a gallon. Now the quotations hover around 26 cents a gallon. In making its request to the federal cohanission, the state commission described gasoline price in Montana as intoler- able. The Mountaineer office wants your job printing. Observant Judge. In a recent divorce suit. where the husband complained, among other timings, that his wife neglected hls buttons, the judge said: \My dear sir, you should remember that a WORMS IS SO used to pinning things that she can't understand why a man should make a fuss about p missing buttou or tv 0 \—Roston Transcript. 11 numerous enough will eat win- ter wheat into the ground, kil- ling it in almost every instance. If you remember last year the hoppers ate around the edges of some winter wheat fields and the strip taken by them failed to come through the next spring. This year it may hap , pen to entire fields if the hop- pers are there in theusual num- bers. The later seeding would have a tendency to miss the majority of hoppers as they are beginning to decrease in num- bers already. Their mortality rate increases till snow flies. Pearls and Rubies. \Pearl\ is thought by some wrItere to come from the Latin \pirtaa.\ meaning \a little pear,\ because so many fine pearls were pear-shaped. \Ruby\ is thought to have been so- called from \ruber the Latin for \red.\ but it may lie that the word \rulier meaning red. was derived from the nanie of tbe ruby. away-- / • /- / 1 \ 1 • t it IA/ ' _ : NEP\ Vreall Pattern 2301 Pattern 226 The \First Day is Not Com- plete without a New Dress! AND IS IT FAIR ....E ASK ... THAT LITTLE EARLS SHOULD BE SAD WHEN MCCALL \PRINTED - PATTERNS MAKE NEW FROCKS SO EASY! M MOTHERS who sew can make a fresh, little Gingham Dreas iu a jiffy, for the New \Printed\ Patterns are wonderfnlly easy to cut by! And mothers who have never sewed before—here's their big chance! For these New Patterns are really sewing lessons in themselves, and even the first wee Frock is sure to be a proud succecs! Cunning School -Frock Patterns Here in the New September Styles! Loral Disarmanzent -Advocated Gedogy of Northern Montana. The following extract from that the merits of the field an article by L. W. Storm, ge- should be pretty well known oloeist in the Great Falis Tri- within another year. bane is of interest to our read- The anticlines just east of ers. Big Sandy is in the center the mountains are long and 'tar- ot the oil area of northern Mon- row with steep sides and some tana described in the article, of them have a considerable NORTHERN MONTANA gathering area so that they are 'The situation in Montana is very attractive from a drilling as diversified as anywhere else point of view. in the state. A little farther east where Starting east from the 'noun- thefolding is not quite so sharp tains there is first the belt of there are several structures sharply folded anticlines and that seem to meet all time re. synclines, followed by a more qufrements very well. They gently folded area. Then .areoteep • smided with dips up to comes the Sweet Grass arch, a 45 degreem and yet they are wide, low anticline, almost a fairly wide and have a good monocline, pitching gently gathering area. Typical of away from the Highwood tnoun- these is the Willow Creek anti• tains to the Canadian boundary cline, now being drilled by the and beyond. East of this be- Petroleum Exploration corn - gins the disturbed region sur- patty. rounding the Bear Paw moun- tains and beyond these, a line of low domes runs on east, the largest of these being the Bow- doin dome which covers about 1,500 square miles. From the southeast corner of the Sweet Grass arch a belt of folded country follows around the Highwood and Judith moun- tains toward Lewistown and finally joins the Cat Creek area. PLENTY OF' OAS IN Awl! The principal indication of oil consists in gas found in greater or beam amount nearly every place in the arch and in the region north of the Hear Paw mountains. Oil showings aopear in water wells and a lit• t e oil has seeped into deep I holes (trilled for oil in the same iregions. Near time Sweet Grass Hills just south of Canada oil j to the amount of several bar- rels was found in such holes. Extensive drilling is going on In the Sweet t! --mss arch, the object of ex plora out is to find an area where th.• general mon- oclinal dip has 1.-141 overcotne by some local ondulation or fault and a terrace or low (low formed similar ti the oil struc- tures of Oklahoma or north Texas. The prevalence of as generally iii time arch :Worth; a reasonable expectation of find- ing a large gas accumulation in such a structure. \wrr\ CAS. Flows of gas at Kevin and Fowler have been reported as \wet - or gasoline bearing. If such g;ts:iline vapor amounts to more than one gallon for each 1000 cubic feet of gas and if it is not too extremely light or \wild\ the find is a very valuable one indeed. A mmal amount of this gasoline mixed with the rather low gi a le Cat Creek grsoline w mid bring it up to stamiarfl for all use% and add greatly to the value of Cat in all of the arm -as mentioned so Creek oil per barrel. - - - TOOK HIM FOR REPAIR MAN PROTECTS POLE FROM DECAY Stenographer's First Meeting With New Preservative Said to Be the Most Employer's Nephew Could Hardly Effective That Has Been Put Be Classed as Happy. on the Market. I helleve my most embarrassing ma. A nev.• preservative which Is elpsets merit was one day nt the rare, when efi to surpass 01 her eotopolonlm used my typewriter was In tav.d of repairs, for similar purposes, and %hail' It Is wrI , em a eorreqiondent of the Chlengo claimed the Ii f' of 5..salett polme Into Tribune. I called tip the repair man, whieh It is Iti'roilimml will M. pr., - and he said he would be at the °thee longed by anywhere from seven to almut In o'clock the next morning. twehe yin rs, Is being teseil. The fluid Next morning a young nian with a , of three emistittaliM, ore. small satchel siepped into the office. of high penetrating quality, such as 1%101mA hesitating I started right In zioe, thegneslunt or ealchanadaoride to explain to him the trouble I was solution or a sugar solution, and a ha%ing with my typewriter. I talked second of high antleeptIc value, tineh I' him aliout ten minutes without glv- as sublimate, pliehoi or cresol. The Mg him a chance to say a word, when third awl 111051 important element Is at last be started to laugh. And he laughed with my employer. viho was In an adjoining office, ocerbeard him and came to see what the Joke was all 'Omni To my amazement when he notleed the yontig man lie exclaimed, \Well. If It Isn't RM.\ After mil had , 111.dne4 a little he explained to me that lie was my em- ployer's sepheIv. one of lotig-coatisimil effect, consist- ing of a slowly soluble antiseptic or alowiy decomposing nodal powder. This constituela 1mm eothhiiiallots sub S granular subetanee, such as pow- dered glass, Is used to protect file %/s./1 In this Whiny of the puncture through %Pilch the other preservatives are In rod wed.-- I I' Mechanics N U Mliabs,R 26 STATE ASSESSMENT REDUCED. CONDEMNS OHIO OIL COM?ANY \The expected has happened. Helena, Aug. 7—Out of the 51 The Ohio Oil Company has a- Montana counties which were baudoned the Clear Creek in existence at the time of the structure. taking of the assessmentof 111 4 0, \The Ohio company is ail op. oaly eight showed increases in : crating arm of the great Stan- the 1O2I assessment, according dard Oil company. It has eon- to the reports of the several as - pie fun,I. 4 with whiCh top,ty 5-.•Ver01 co:dames, r the beat gooloeical tal.ey, all of which have now beei.) la • t.ma world. Yet its v;,..1:,) d by the state beard of I locate zi }I si imge well for the ii cotil ted Iota Is for the lcompany in the whole big state ;51 counties show a total a \PSI , l) ‘fontana. meat of all property returned 1 \ft 11:e4 ample funds with by the assessors itA V. - !,li s t to par •hase the be4 e• i5 as against .Sl,13l,a.•47,a5tin ,i,a!;e9me.t. ant to pay the most a decrease of $s7,s57,1eO. Th e et tor maity Ocrcelllio:e of decreas 0.1. i monme, time stile press has The eight comities reporting II e ti'led with tales of disas• increases are Broadwater, Gar- ter to both wells a nil &011ie., Glacier, Liberty, Missou- equi patent. • la, Phillips, Powder iiiver and — nit. Ohio pulled off one ot l'reasurer. The increases iii these chapters in easteru For Hese emanitios aggregated $5,- gms county, then at (Zagged 1::.1.5a2 but while these eight Point, and now at Clear Creek. were increasing their assess - The Big Wall will very probalo tnents to that extent, the other ly be next on the program. counties were reducing - theirs \What about the motive? to the aggregate of $93,390,719. \Simply this to \knock - The above figures do not in - Montana; to mpread around the chide the assessments of rail - story that drilling in Moulana roads and other in for oil is a had investmeat. properties which assessments The Standard Oil company is are to be fixed next week by not yet ready for a big oil boom the state board of equalization. in Montana. It hasn't its plans Assuming that these properties yet laid for controling the oil will be assessed at the same industry in this state, as it does figure as last year, aggregating in Wyoming and some other $234,136,852, this would bring state the 11421 total up to $1,550,166,- „ m s t:anwhile, prm;merving for ! 917 as compareal whtb $1,66)+, - its own future the geological 024,1(1(1 for 1(120.'. information it has obtained through deep drilling on many NOTICE OF EIONTII GRADE EXAMINATION structures in Montana, it will spread the stories of its so cal- Tom A totosT Eli 111th GRAM: 1(41 failures from one end of the Exastraa•rrox will be given at continent to the other. the following places on August '\I'llese are not new tactics 25th and 26th, 1921: Geraldine, for the Ohio company. It has Fort Benton and Big Sandy. pursued them in other :Oaten, Pupils who have but two or and for the same grossly unfair three subjects left to complete purposes. From one end of the - the eighth grade are urged to country to the other the Ohio t tke this examination so that company has an unsavory rep- they may enter High School utation with practical oil men. without subjects to make up. \As the Bulletin sees it the iquaIRAM. state press has a duty to per- Titroson form in these premises. The 9:00 Civics 1 :31 i fir t z i ss aii , :i ( t . n e ar whole rotten, I r a d u lent, 10:1:1 Recess n knocking M711(.1111. !Mould be ex- 111:31) History 3:17) Reading\ posed.' Oil Bulletin (Lewis- 12:00 Intermission 4:15 Close town). FRIDAY. 0:00 Arithmetic 1:30 Physiology 111t0 Recess Agrictilture 11:15 Spelling 2:30 Geography 12:00 Intermisaion 4:00 Close Antarctic El Dorado. Thai gold will lie dairovered !II the antarctic la now mistimed. (Mil IN present end the MO 11 , 11.11 expedition found toolybileffite worth \arum per moo. siroomm OI,I1eaflot.sme 11111114.r, the form of grceii carbona(es. were •Iso found. First Chisel Wa3 Bronze. The eI wre. fo tro•I 2,r4X) $1 , 111.4 $1: , 0. I ii..1211lid, or leroliZ.% And •Ile:efoie 11,14 i,llii-j,nt fir !tilting. Rich Kitchenware. In the day. is hen the Roman Pm- Plre W914 et Its height. If too ,selit Iota the enlinary department ot en Me - gam eatablioduamit you W011111 NI 4 emeermiram lined with allvnr timid pall. or emodona rh'Illy inlaid with arabesque in sitter, tini' i!!!'iovele tery hatolsotto ly ill Mai/nit:1y ett reed. \Perhaps You Don't Know says the Good Judge How long a little of the Real Tobacco Chew will last, Nor how much gen- uine chewing satisfac- tion the full, rich real tobacco taste will give. Ask any man who usci the Real 'Tobacco Chcw. He tell you that this class of tobacco will give more satisfac- tion—and at less cost— than the ordinary kind. Put sifr its two styles W -B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco RIGHT CUT is a short-cut j „. liervIAMARA & MARLOW INC \1:vcrytl:ing ror Ever; body.\ - 1, wiftwaLat,
