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„lì VOLUME; I Ï ; t \ CHOTEAU, TETON C Ò b $ T jft. MONTANA, FEBRUARY 12, T9]5 NUMBER 33 The; Farmers’ Caucus , \ i ^ The labors of Senator T. O. Larson as chairmap of the senate committee .. on compensation are -r -just ' beginning. The compensa- . ' tion 'committee ôf both \ hbuse and - senate have been holding joint public hearings this week, and the merits and demerits - o f ' the various bills before the \ legisla ture have been argued pro and ./ con. It''is expected that the com mittees will be ready to make a report back to their respective bodies within the next ten days or perhaps before. Senator Larson is a prominent figure in the unofficial caucus of the house and :senate members from-fcbeagricultural. counties of the state, who confer, regardless of> politics,-upon legislationof in terest to the farming communities of Montana. His own experience as'.a farmer and stockman, and his past experience as a county official and member of the legislature make him well fitted to pass upon legislation which will affect the farmer, and bis judgment is con sidered final by his associates. The “ farmers’ caucus” as it is called, already has several meas ures to its credit, and no bill in - either house, which affects in any - way the farmers of Montana, gets i very far along before it has been thoroughly torn to pieces and put ; together again by the members of this important confer, nee, which is peculiarly a feature of the fourteenth legislative assembly. The compensation legislation which absorbing the time G/ntion ôf \Senator Larsr. K. ^sidered the most im- ' portal %11 'legislation, .which, wilbcofe— oefore the legislatüre, not excepting even prohibition or 1 race track gambling. His posiJ tion as chairman of the senate cbmpensatiôn committee : ¡places' the bulk o f the responsibility^ in thé1 matter o f compensation upon the shoulders'of Senator Larson. Dry Forks Lots of snow up here in our country. The writer was up to Dupuyer in yesterday's snow storm!. . Mr. Eurben went down to By num last Sunday. He is going to move his family to Dupuyer and then travel for the Wilbur Stock- food Co. A. K. Prescott and Wm. Scott have some fine yearling stock down the coulee. Thé automobile travel is stopped for a while now I giiéss. If snowing continues, there will be a good show for lots of mois ture in spring. We are agents for Red Jacket, so easy to fix, pumps. Choteau, Hardware Co. Five Killed in Butte Butte, Feb. 7.—-Five miners were caught in a cave’-in in the Bhaft of the Gagnon mine of the Anaconda Copper company, four are dead and one man still alive is covered by a mass of rock. He is Richard Rogers, and rescue forces late tonight were able to talk with him. The fall of rock occured late Saturday night, and it is not expected to reach Rogers before some time ton orrow. The dead: JOSEPH FABER. JOSEPH R. FAY. ANDREW EYISON. MICHAEL ZITZ. •The bodies of Faber and ' Fay were fecovered tonight. There is no ihope that either. Evison or Zitz are alive. Richard Teddy, hear-, ing the sound of falling rock, in stantly started climbing the ladder in the shaft and escaped with bruises and a sprained back. Naughtiness' by Proxy , There are two.ways o f enjoying a ball game. You can go out and play ball, -or'you can-go-and\8it:in‘the grand stand and enjoy seeing other men play. If you are much interested 'in the game, and would like to pluy it, but are too lazy or fat or un skilled, you will probably confine your interests in baseball to the grandstand, and-still have a lot of fun out o f the game. Now, there are two ways of being a sinner. First, you go and do something wrong—try to get some happiness out of. this world that is not in it. and in the end you pay the inevit able penalty for violating the law of nature. Second, if you haven’t the nerve to go and do wrong yourself, you can have a lot of forbidden fun gloating over other people’s sins. You can enjoy all kinds of sins by proxy, cherish them in your soul, think about them, magnify them, and corrupt everyone you know by talking about them—that is, you cau become a gossip. A gossip is one who enjoys evil second handed. The sceond method is comingto be the more popular way to sin. There are no risks in it; you get the enjoyment and the other fel low pays the price. You can even be more licentious in' this second way than the origi- nal sinner can; f ?r you can give your evil imagination full play, while the poor wretch who actually commits' the sin soon finds his imagination checked up by the ,c ragj^a.qj». and. ia diajj 1 uj^n edt. „¿c.. Another advantage;to the 'gos sip method of indulging in 9in is that you can niean while retain your respectability. You may ’ eveh ’increase your popularity by always having some racy story to tell. Moreover, you1' can indulge yourself to'the limit in your pet vice and by letting yourself be 'scandalized—'or half envious—' when someone else does the thing you would like to do yourself, you can then express your resent-1 meat or outraged moral resent ment. and your gloating over evil as concern for the welfare o f your sinful neighbor, and m this way if you practice a little you may enjoy all the forbidden pleasures of sin, and at the same time fee) quite respectable and superior. The gossip method of skimming the cream of sin is one of the great discoveries of modern times, but there is one difficulty about it. And that is that while, the person who actually does wrong, sooner or later bumps up against the stone wall, learns the folly of bis ways and quits, he who . indulges in rottenness by proxy, always imagines that it is only bis poor stumbling neighbor who finds pleasure in evil, aud failing to see that it is really only himself who gets any pleasure out of the world’s wickedness, he is apt to go on through life unrepentent, and die and be dammed, so to speak, to his utter astonishment before he learns that he is a sin ner __ Everett Dean Martin. if i Epworth League The next social and business meeting o f the Epworth League will be an indoor track meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. Whitacre!; You will propably get.a notice, but iif you ' do riot, come anyway, for you may have been overlooked. ■ Note book work wil* be started next Sunday in the Juriior League. Junior League 3 o ’clock. Epworth League 7 o ’clock. Photo trr American Preaa Association This rapid fire field piece is stationed among tbe sand dunes. Farmington Notes High School Notes La9t Tuesday, Feh. 2nd, M r. and Mrs. J. W. Kerr entertained Mr. and Mrs George Slanger, Mrs., Miss and Mr. Twitchel to dinner, the occasion being Mr. Kerr’s birthday. The annual meeting of the Farmers’ Co-operative Cana! Co., wa 9 held in the Farmington school house last Saturday. The follow ing officers were elected for the ensuing year: Ole W agnild ............. President Olaf Forseth .. Sec. and Treas. D. E. Jacobson ..Superintendent VV illie Sohoppe .. Assistant Supt. Car! Hanson, Lauris Otness, A. O. Eori’gmuir, and Pete Otness. Directors. Mr. and Mrs. Saterlee have been visiting on the Bench for a few- days. ... » - • . The'hany friends of Mr. and. Mrs. - Ghrist Hanson extend con gratulations'on the birth of their- little daughter, Feb. sixth. The'SWietv of Kouifv Will meet in the West, school house, dis trict numher eicrht. Sntnrdnv. February thirteenth.«*, two o’(■•look T). m. Don’t forget, the date Last Snndnv Mr. and Mrs Dan Lindseth entertained to dinner. Mr. and Mrs. ,1. W . Kerr. Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Forseth and ohild- ren. Mr. and Mr«. Lauris Otness and son. Charlev, Mr. and Mr°. Delmer Clark and Mrs. J C. Moran. J. D Martin visited at the Lomrmnir home Sunday eveniner. Morris Magnus visited at the Kerr home a few davc last week. Mr. Magnus has proved up on a fine homestead. Jack Martin has been confined to the housp with rheumatism and cold for several davs but is ranch hatter today. The Misoeo Amanda. Sophia, Ruth and Lillie. Lindseth and Miss Evjen: the Messrs. Buell Roll, Arthur Davidson, Arthur Harri son, Jnel Lindseth and Alhprt Peterson attended the danop at Agawam, Saturday night. They report the dance a grand suc cess. Mi«s Amanda Lindseth and Arthur Davidson furnished the music. George Taylor and Charles M. Pierce spent Sunday afternoon with the Brolsma family. Mary Ord Longmuir and Clara Jacobson went to Cnoteau Mon day. Rev. Mr. Kumnik. the German Lutheran minister at Power, held services at the German church last Sunday. t He makes regular visits to this community every three weeks,, and is preparing a class for confimation Easter Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Rustad went j , ta Choteau Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Christ Hanson and w :e niece, baby Hanson. Mrs. Rus tad and Mrs. Hanson are sisters. Mr. Ground Hog surely did not see his shadow this year as the beautiful weathe r is still with us. Feb. 8, 1916. There will be a big basket ^ ball game between Chinook and Teton Friday night. This promises to be a fine game. Mr. Dietrich is giving three beautiful prizes, a pillow top and two pennants, to those who sell the most tickets for the next two games. Everyone is working hard. , The Girls’ Glee Club will meet Thursday night after school. Mr. Dietrich, Howard Burrell,, and Lewis Bouma gave an account of the Great Falls and Lewistown games. They were rather dis appointing, the score in Great Frills being 42 to 18 in their favor and in Lewistown 44 'to 21. Ini both gairies our team played brilliantly at times but when-the large floors began to tell, then ibney' fell ‘ off. ‘ Special mention ¡should be madq.of. John; Weaver,* who is a new man in the team and who played exceptionally well’. Friday is a holiday. Hurrah 1 No spelling in English. The Literary Society will nifeet and render the following program Thursday evening: Song. Star Spangled Banner, school Paper, Character Sketch of Linc oln, Albert Crittenden. Paper, Character Stories, Etta Roberts. Book Review, A Daughter of the South, Mable Kelly. Song, Tenting Tonight, School. Speech, St. Valentines Day, Wal lace Coffey Mr. Dietrich is certainly a booster fdr T. C. H. S. Read this. Hrive yoil ever 9een a basket ball game? Have you ever played the game? Do you like good clean sport? Are you among the number who haven’t time? Do you need livening up these depressing cloudy days? Do you wish to see a crowd really excited? Are you a booster for Choteau and its educational institutions? i Would you like to compare Choteau boys with those from other towns? i Are you'V.n alumnui or ex student of T. C. H. S? Have you a friend that would like to see the game? Would you like to see Leo, Steele lead some real yelling? If you can answer yes to any of the above questions, Sea That Basket Ball Game Tonight. Bariket' ball develops good judg ment arid ¡endurance.' Basket ball teaches ri boy to take hard knocks with a smile. > Basket ball \requires a clean, healthy body which is the best guarantee of good wholesome thought.' ' \ Basket ball performs many other helpfril offices arid does no harm. ' _ ’ ’’ ' ’ ‘ ( Basket\ ball 'i s ’ an estimable 9port. It deserves your ’siip'port. Come Out and See That Game Tonight. ! Be Good to Your Town \There has been farm organiza tions whose great ambition whs to eliminate the middle man. Every such effort has met with failure. The middle man is essential in our present mode • of doing business: Those who seek to get around him and dispense with his service must usé their own \time and \ that of someone else And if this is valued at what it is worth the cost utilizing thé labor of an unskilled person will generally amount to more than would be paid the middleman for skilled service. But the worst.. feature is the creating of antagonisms that should not’ bo. Should a fanner made enemies of persons whom later on may be glad to have as customers? The interests of pro ducers aud consumers are mutual. There is not enough of the pull- together spirit in any community. Very often a man sends his cash away and then buys at home on credit, thus creating a feeling if thé person with whom'he deals is human, that he should be ' taken advantage ' of—and he generally is in one way or another. Be good to your own—your own folks, your own community, your own state, and you will be good to yourseif. When you con template to make a cash purchase at lea9t give the local man a fair chance to get the money.—Havre Promoter Bole News Mrs. T. Y. Hayes and son El mer, went to'Great Falls Monday, returning Tuèsday. : Mrs...Mary., Ü. Taylor, of Cho teau, stopped off here Tuesday. She was on her way to Fairfield to visit her son and daug iter. C. E. Sandberry came down from Choteau Saturday aud visit ed over Sunday with his family. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wilcox and children, of Choteau, visited at the Wallace ranch Sunday. Last Sunday Mrs. Lestrud and daughters enjoyed a sleigh ride out to the A. E. Holm ranch where a very enjoyable evening was spent John Bjork went to Spokane last week for a short visit with reletives. He left his ranch in charge of Arthur Johnson during his' absence. Miss Ragna Saltbammer. who has been visiting at the Nordbagen ranch, returned to Choteau last Friday. Mrs. DeShon has resumed her duties in the hotel again after an absence of a few months. Miss Nettie Halberg spent Sun day night with Mrs. O. P. Mc- Elmeel. Rev. C. M. Daly, of Great Falls, gave a Philippine lecture in the school house Saturday night. He held services here Sunday. J. A. Baart, of Choteau, was a business visitor here Monday. Don’t miss the valentine social in tbe Farmer’s hall Saturday night. ' Civil Cases The following civil cases have been filed in the o’ffice of the clerk of the district court since our last report: J. W. Behen, doing business as Behen’s Collecting Agency, vs. Lloyd Callison, transcript of judg ment. Filed Feb. 9. Mutual Oil Co., a corporation, vs. J. W.-Janieson, Jr. ,t and Har-.j riet L. Janleson, transcript ’o f judgment'. „ /FiledTeb. 6. \' j= Foss Leeson and Giles Camp*1 bell, as surviving partners of J. D. -Hunt A Co:, *vs. Gus Breeding, abstract o f judgment. Filed Feb. 5 tb . Wilson May Stop in Mon tana Washington, Feb. 9.—President Wilson will undoubtedly ;stop ;in Montana, most likely.,\ at Helena, on his trip to California/for the exposition. Sènatôr Myers palled on the President’ at the White House the other day arid risked him to visit the state. He gave the president a copy of the me morial adopted by the Montana legislature’ inviting him to speak in the state on the trip. The président advised the senator that he would bear the invitation in mind and would give Montana consideration in making up his itinerary. Harriage Licenses Since our last report marriage licenses have been issued by James Gibson, clerk of the district court, as follows: Louis Wadyimske. 51, of Fow ler, and Dell Van, 27, of Conrad. ‘Francis R. Warren, 27, of Fow ler, and Angis Crouch, 22, of Conrad. Porter Bench Michael Campbell, Mike Sulli van and Geo. D. Porter went to Choteau Monday on business. Mrs. J. A. Penroy returned to her home on the North Bench, after spénding the week with Mrs. Geo D. Portér. There-will be a chicken supper at the Lincoln school Friday evening, Feb. 12, after which the ' v \ l i Farmers Equity will hold a special meeting.'•- ' ~ '• v “ A number of Mr. and Mrs. Arnett’s friends surprised them Thursday afternoon. A masquerade dance is an nounced at the Portér school for Saturday 13. Ladies are request ed to bring baskets which will be sold for $1.00 each. The Literary club met in the school house Saturday evening with about 75 present. The pro gram was enjoyed by nil. A few of tbe school children of the Lincoln school took part in a dialogue. A farce was given by Misses Heden, Nelson, Kangley, Messrs. Fuller, White and Mrs. J . A . Penroy. Music and singing was appreciated by ’all. The debate was given to :the nega tive, bring out that the present generation was more beneficial to society than the older generation. Tbe Lacenette Brothers have ju9t received the sad news from France that their oldest brother had been killed in the war. . . » Mr. and Mrs. Will Wallenstein were visitors at the Porter ranch Friday. Coyotes Spread Hydro phobia Washington, Feb. 9.—T h e spreading of rabies by_ infected coyotes among cattle grazing in the national forest's has* assumed ^a grave aspect, according to a re port received by the forest ser vice from the district forester in charge o f the forests in Washing ton and Oregon. Numerous town ships in eastern Oregon, it is re ported, have ordered that all dogs be muzzled lest those that have been bitten by rabid coyotes develop hydrophobia and attack humans'or domestic animals. Efforts are being'made by the state^authoritiM'of 'Oregon to atop the spread’of hydrophobia by this means rind officers l8f the forest service are cooperating in attempts to kill off the coyotes. In one county klode 'tK’é^ldss'of ^three hundred head o f cattle is charged to rabid coyotes.
